Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-14
A FINE DAY FOR YACHTING.
The Atlantic Beats out the Galate,
 in a Splendid Race.

in Splendid Race.
 NEW YORK, June 13.-In the early morn ing there were indications of a favorable day for the Corinthian Yacht club. The day was clear and there was a pleasant breeze blow ing from the northwest and appearances of more, but when the judges steamer Lucken- bach got down to the starting point off Fort Wadsworth, the breeze had dropped out to velocity of not more than seven or eight miles an hour. The yachts were started, however, and before they got through they had all the wind they wanted and quite suf- icient to test the qualities of the racers. She conditions of the race were unusual. There were four courses. The first four classes turned Sandy Hook light via buoys 10 and 911S. The next lot rounded Scotland ship and the smaller vessels went over triangular course inside of Sandy Hook running from buoy 1O15 to Point Comfort on the New Jersey shore and home and to 101a and straight home. The crews were limited to one man for each five feet of deck and every third man was required to be an amateur. The skipper surely had to be an amateur. The measurements were of three kinds-on the area of sail, length on load line and a combination of sail and water line length. A true sailor prize, pewter mug, was offer ed, three wings in each class and one wing to each amateur member of a winning crew. The Galatea was the first to get over the line. The Atlantic had got too far in shore, but she came around to the Englishman's windward and went over ten seconds behind. The other yachts followed in this order: Ulidia, Cinderalla, Fanita, Huron, Stranger: Vision, Cythera, Kangaroo, Delwyn, Corinne, Alex, F, 1lderan, Petrel, Culprit, Fay, Beatrice and Clean. It was the Cythera's first race in American waters. The Atlantic at once began to overhaul the Galatea and soon passed her. It was hard job 10 get up the Sandy Hook beach, but when the yachts accomplished it they met splendid breeze outside Then came the real sailing of the race. The wind was stiff and by the board. Then the lldern lost her port topmost rigging The breeze came out from the northeast and it was a hummer. Besides carrying away topmasts it sent the boats along at tremen- dous rate. The Stranger, who was ahead, was soon passed by the Galatea and the At lantic. Then came a scratch between the Galatea and Atlantic. The strong wind had caused jib topsails to be hauled down, but the Atlantic put hers up again and gained on the Galatea. Then the Englishman ran his mp. The lightship was rounded in this or der: Atlantic, eh.. 33m., 55s.; Galatea, 2h., S5m., 15s.; Stranger, ah;, 4om., sos.; Huron, 2h., 4Om., 40s.; Cinderella, 2h., 43m., 22s.
 On the stretch out the Huron had done surprisingly good work and the Cinderella had come up from behind prettily. The boats jibed over to port. On rounding and after starting sheets point boomed for home. It was fine twelve knot breeze and the Atlantic and Galatea had a beautiful time with each other. The skipped along with their scuppers nnder water while the others followed well as they could af- ter hauling down topsails. When they got inside of Sandy Hook they lost the breeze; the Atlantic walked away from the Galatea and when the wind died out the Atlantic was nearly mile closer to home. The boats would never have got home had not the tide changed. When they did arrive it was found that they Atlantic beat the Galatea eight minutes thirty-six seconds on corrected time. The Stranger had no competitor in her class. The Cinderella beat the Huron 29 minutes 59 seconds by time allowance that belonged to the class the Cinderella was originally entered for and the U1idia, Culprit, Fay and Clean won easily in their classes.